Rees-Mogg: Customs Union And Single Market Hurt Poor Britons

Jacob Rees-Mogg, speaking on the Daily Politics, has destroyed the argument that being a part of the Customs Union and Single Market benefits the British people. He said:

The customs union is a protectionist racket that protects continental European businesses at the cost of British consumers, it puts up the price of food, of clothing and of footwear.

These hit the poorest in our country the most because the largest portion of their spending goes on food, clothing and footwear compared to the richer in society.

And the poorest people in the world. It discriminates against imports from some of the poorest countries in the world.

The comments made by Mr Rees-Mogg cast the position of the Labour Party in a particularly poor light. Labour, so-called champion of Britain’s poorest and downtrodden, wish to remain in both the customs union and single market in the long-term. Sir Keir Starmer, the real pied piper who Jeremy Corbyn dances to the tune of when it comes to Brexit policy, has already stated:

Subject of course to negotiations, remaining in a customs union with the EU is a viable long-term option for Labour. Equally, we are flexible as to whether the benefits of the single market are best retained in the long term by negotiating a new single market relationship or by working up from a bespoke trade deal.

In other words, Labour will be putting the needs of big corporations first over and above those of the poorest and most downtrodden in society who will benefit the most from Brexit. Labour may change it’s leader and cover itself in a leftist gloss but as we can see when the crunch comes it is still on the side of the few, never the many.

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Thank you Moggy for telling it as it is. I tumbled this some years ago, and is the reason why, as a floating voter, I gave up on Labour. Now with Brexit, this makes it even more necessary to avoid that Party. On a different level and reasons, the Tory Party Government is looking like a joke, at top level. The fact of you not being called to cabinet, underpins this. – You might wish to look at UKIP, in the near future, as it fits your views rather better than the Tory Party !

Like Mike Maunder, I have long been of the opinion that Labour, far from being a Party for workers, has for many years failed miserably to live up to that description. Was it not the Labour Party, who’s Union led communist shop stewards in factories throughout this land, almost succeeded in bringing this Country to it’s knees? Was it not the likes of Jack Dash & Vic Turner, both communist shop stewards in the London Docks, who time after time brought these docks to a standstill? & Len McCluskey who did the same in the Liverpool Docks, always claiming to improve working conditions & practices, but behind these claims, the communists were busy fermenting ever more problems for our Country?
These same dockers, who’s pay was near three times that earn’t in Shipyards in the North East called on support from these Shipyards & they came out, hastening the death of so many World famous Ship-yards throughout our Country? Those dockers in London eventually paid the price of their stupidity by failing to support the container Industry?
It was the Labour Party that oversaw most of the disintegration of ordinary workers jobs?, by failing to curb the communist threat? What a great legacy that Labour would love to forget.